"Designs For Interiors" 1986 CALLOWAY, Stephen

CALLOWAY, Stephen [40] pp. w/ 85 lots Victoria & Albert Museum 1986 8 1/4" x 6 7/8" Stapled wraps VG A 1986 London's Victoria and Albert Museum presented an interior design exhibition of decorators' drawings entitled ''The Way We Live Now.'' Nearly everything on view was sleek, modern and minimal. But interiors have changed. And ''Designs for Interiors,'' an assemblage of 60 drawings, pieces of furniture and fabrics on view at the Victoria and Albert through Oct. 12, shows just how dramatic the changes have been. ''In no previous era has such a diversity of approach to the creation of interiors been possible,'' said Stephen Calloway, curator of prints at the museum and the exhibition's organizer. ''It is impossible to do this kind of show now without showing how people use antiques. And modernism is now just a small part of it.'' The designers hail from London, Paris, New York, Milan and Rome and include, among others, such traditionalists as London's Nicholas Haslam, John Stefanid